Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

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Subject: Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South
From: Carl Fink <carl@fink.to>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:45:32 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 20040827084532.GB8400@nitpicking.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 412EEC11.2000106@planet.nl>
References: <[🔎] 200408261850.08590.gsutton9503@wavecable.com> <[🔎] 412EEC11.2000106@planet.nl>

If memory serves, debs are actually ar archives.  You might make sure that
there's a functioning GNU ar on your system.  (I have no idea whether Debian
actually uses ar or its own copy of the ar code, actually.)
--      
Carl Fink             carl@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
http://www.jabootu.com

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